Delivery of Dry Leased Airbus A320s to PIA to Begin in June

[Abbas Ali]

Seems the A320 (AP-BLC) painters forgot to paint prominent outline of passenger cabin doors and emergency exits.

Doors without prominently painted outline can be seen here:


Rear door without prominent outline.


Front door without prominent outline.


Emergency exits without prominent outlines over the wing.

Cabin doors / emergency exits with prominent outlines visible from distance help rescuers in locating them for entering the aircraft in emergency situations especially in dark / poor light.

For example, here's photo of PIA Airbus A310-308 (AP-BDZ) with prominently outlined cabin doors and emergency exit over the wing.


Click here to see large photo.

Abbas

[Moin]

Seems the PM has become the defacto aviation expert and analyst for PIA. He knows best.

[furqan_haider]

thank you Abbas for the update; looking at the flight trajectory noted that the speed dropped to 61 Kts at 3150 feet, can someone expert elaborate about this speed drop possibility during descend? Is it a STALL condition? Also, note immediately there was speed gain to 180 kts, the very next moment...

Right now, AP-BLC is operating PK309, when I saw its speed was 601knots and suddenly within a minute it was about 434knots...
Maybe its planned.. but...

[imiakhtar]

Right now, AP-BLC is operating PK309, when I saw its speed was 601knots and suddenly within a minute it was about 434knots...
Maybe its planned.. but...

Flightradar ground speeds/vertical speeds are unreliable in areas with patchy cover.

Not even Concorde had that dash speed ability.

[Abbas Ali]

The dry leased Airbus A320 (AP-BLC) operated first revenue flight for PIA on July 4, according to statement of a PIA spokesperson on Express News channel.

The flight was PK-308 from Karachi to Islamabad.

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

AP-BLC today operated PIA Karachi to Lahore flight PK-304 & Lahore to Karachi flight PK-305.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ap-blc

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

So far, PIA has used AP-BLC only for domestic flights.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ap-blc

Abbas

[raihans]

The second A320 will arrive in Pakistan on July 15.

Another 2 days to go for 2nd A320

[Hashmax]

^^^
Raihans 2nd A320 will arrive on 26th july not on 15th !

[raihans]

thank you Hashmax for update, i was sticking to the same schedule as Abbas posted initially

[Umair]

AP-BLC operating its first international flight as PK-274 to Mumbai.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ap-blc/

[faiq]

No activity from AP-BLC witnessed during last few days.

[Sameel]

No activity from AP-BLC witnessed during last few days.

Who told you that?

AP-BLC has been active everyday since the 17th..

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ap-blc/

[furqan_haider]

fr24 is currently showing AP-BLC operating NL307 from Lahore ...
that should be PK307 I guess ... because earlier today AP-BLC operated PK306 to Lahore

[A310]

fr24 is currently showing AP-BLC operating NL307 from Lahore ...
that should be PK307 I guess ... because earlier today AP-BLC operated PK306 to Lahore

As per my knowledge, when you enter a callsign in any Airbus, be it wrong, you cannot change it till the end of flight. For example, some days ago PA 402 was showing as AQB402 instead of ABQ402, it was 320. It could've been entered by mistake. 307 is currently showing as PIA307 on fr24.